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The Library of Congress and Twitter or What You Just Ate for Breakfast is Now History Kate Laurel Burgess-Mac Intosh Principal, Revitalizing Historic Sites [email protected] Collecting Contemporary: Why New History Should be Accessioned? New England Museum Association Conference
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The Library of Congress and Twitter
or What You Just Ate for Breakfast
is Now History
Kate Laurel Burgess-Mac IntoshPrincipal, Revitalizing Historic Sites
Collecting Contemporary: Why New History Should be Accessioned?New England Museum Association Conference
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
“Have you ever sent out a “tweet” on the popular Twitter social media service?
Congratulations: Your 140 characters of less will now be housed in the Library of Congress…
…Every public tweet, ever, since Twitter’s inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally
at the Library of Congress”
“How Tweet it Is!: Library Acquires Entire Twitter Archive” by Matt Raymond, April 14, 2010Library of Congress Blog
Blogs.loc.gov/loc/files/2010/04/LOC-Twitter.pdf
Blogs.loc.gov/loc/files/2010/04/LOC-Twitter.pdf
Blogs.loc.gov/loc/files/2010/04/LOC-Twitter.pdf
What is the significance of this acquisition?
What is the significance of this acquisition?
What can we potentially learn from ‘tweet ' micro-blogs?
First Tweet Ever by Jack Dorsey, Twitter Co-Founder
President Obama on Winning 2008 Election
First Reputable Announcement of Osama Bin Laden’s Death by Keith Urbahn, Chief of Staff for the former Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld
How will we be
REMEMBERED?How will we make
OUR MARK ?
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The Library of Congress and Twitter
or What You Just Ate for Breakfast
is Now History
Kate Laurel Burgess-Mac IntoshPrincipal, Revitalizing Historic Sites
Collecting Contemporary: Why New History Should be Accessioned?New England Museum Association Conference
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
